Is it the right time to change your laptop battery?

Everyone needs time to recharge their batteries on occasion. But for laptops to run optimally, they need to change them. Most laptop manufacturer’s suggest swapping out your laptop battery about every two years, which is largely dependent upon how much the battery is used. To get full value out of your power source, be sure to [...]

Posted Under: Laptop Battery
This post was written by Battery Chronicle on April 23, 2010 Comments (0)

Battery of the Future? MIT Working on Improving Lithium-Air Technology

If you’re not already familiar with lithium-air batteries, you may want to take note. Also known as lithium-oxygen, these batteries are similar to the lithium-ion batteries that now dominate the field of portable electronics. But because lithium-air batteries replace the heavy conventional compounds in such batteries with a carbon-based air electrode and flow of air, [...]

Posted Under: Lithium-ion battery
This post was written by Battery Chronicle on April 9, 2010 Comments (0)